Trainer Appropriation and Transfer of a New Prevention Approach in Material Handling

The online publication of the questionnaire for the first part of the study was made possible through the contribution of Gaétan Boucher and his colleagues at the Communications and Knowledge Transfer Division of the IRSST. [...] Thus, the training duration to be negotiated, the openness of the client organizations and their commitment to modifying problematic work situations, the workers’ motivation to participate, the complexity of the handling activity in question, and the conditions in which it takes place are all sub-variables with which the practitioner must juggle to adapt and communicate the training content. [...] Machin (2002), citing the work of McGehee and Thayer (1961), reiterates the importance of considering the following techniques in the design of training programs: (a) the use of identical elements (e.g., ensuring a level of fidelity between the practice environment and the work environment; (b) the teaching of general principles (e.g., explaining how a particular skill could be applied in new situ. [...] The purpose of this subsection is therefore to determine, on the basis of the categories of variables identified by Baldwin and Ford (1988), which of these are indispensable and should be considered in the specific context of the IPSMH. [...] Optimizing the IPSMH and the training of trainers based on the results obtained The research team anticipates that it will not always be possible to fully implement the IPSMH: adaptations are to be expected depending on various factors (e.g., the complexity of the handling activity in question and its conditions of implementation, the concomitant and relative influences of the secondary and primar.